Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Wealth Now/Philanthropy Later

One of the most transformative movements of investors is Slow Money, the brainchild of Woody Tasch,

Systems thinking has a name for this kind of arrangement. It’s called suboptimization: allowing a subsystem to benefit, to the detriment of the whole.

“The first principle is self-governance,” he says. “Markets only work when you couple decision making with consequences.

“The closest US equivalent would be director of ethics.”

According to the Santiago Theory of Cognition, developed by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela,

NAMING AIDS SEEING

“We don’t need to convince large numbers of people to change,” Wheatley wrote; “instead we need to connect with kindred spirits” who share a common vision.

Seeing the emergence of a new economy as a natural process is different from thinking of the competition of two ideologies vying for dominance, which is the paradigm of capitalism versus communism.